Collection of Education Quotes - PowerPoint Presentation

Collection of Quotes
From Everyone and Everywhere
and
Some Thoughts
From the Voices in My Head
Kevin Gerrior
Teach your children well
Neil Young of
Crosby Stills and Nash
mous
Most of us end up with no more
than five or six people who
remember us. Teachers have
thousands of people who remember
them for the rest of their lives.
Andy Rooney
The quality of a person’s life
is in direct proportion
to their commitment to
excellence, regardless of their
chosen field or endeavor
Vince Lombardi
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there’s always one individual who perceives a
solution and is willing to take command. Very
often that individual is crazy
Dave Barry
Never doubt that a small group
of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change
the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing
that ever has
Margaret Mead
You get the best effort from
others not by lighting a fire
beneath them, but by
building a fire within.
Bob Nelson
The mark of a well educated
person is not necessarily in
knowing all the answers, but in
knowing where to find them"
Douglas Everett
It’s what you learn
after you know it all
that counts
Harry S. Truman
Education is learning
what you didn’t know
you didn’t know
Daniel Boorstin
Yoggisms
The future ain’t what it used to be.
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the
future.
You can learn a lot by observing.
Si Hoc Legere Scis
Nimium Eruditionis Habes
Translation: If you can read
this, you’re overeducated
There is no more noble occupation
in the world than to help someone
succeed.
Alan Loy McGinnis
Good steel must pass
through the hottest fire.
Bobby Bowden
Question on a philosophy exam:
What’s the greater danger to
mankind:
ignorance or apathy ?
A student’s response: “I don’t know
and I don’t care.”
The aging process could
be slowed down if it had
to work its way
through Congress.
...the eye of an
8 times as many visual cells per centimeter
at 600 feet can see object the size of a dime moving through 6 inch grass
can see 3 inch fish jumping in a lake 5 miles away
Visionary people
see beyond the hum drum of everyday activities
into future possibilities
Charles Swindoll
Opportunity is missed by
most people because it is
dressed in overalls and looks
like work.
Thomas Alva Edison
My interest is in the
future, because I'm going
to spend the rest of my
life there.
Charles Kettering
Think outside the basket
office building
in Ohio
You don't reform schools with just
vision and ideas and concepts. You
have to give people the
strategies, methods and tools to make the
change happen."
Alan Bain
The best way to predict
the future is to invent it
Alan Kay
Education must provide the
opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can
at best provide a rich and challenging
environment for the individual to
explore, in his own way
Noam Chomsky
I am still learning
Michaelangelo’s favorite saying
Education should
convert the mind into
a living fountain
and not a reservoir.
John M. Mason
The significant problems we
face cannot be solved at the
same level of thinking we
were at when we created
them
Albert Einstein
Technology...
It saves time and wastes it,
makes lives more simple and more complicated,
brings us together and pushes us apart,
love it and hate it,
it’s everywhere, all the time
and here to stay.
Andrew Leonard
Everyone who remembers
his own educational
experience
remembers teachers,
not methods and techniques.
Sidney Hook
Things You'll Never Hear a Teacher Say
"Ithink the discipline around
here is just a little too strict !"
Things You'll Never Hear a Teacher Say
"I don’t think that athletics are
getting enough money in this school."
You Might Be in Education If . . .
You believe the faculty lounge room
should be equipped with a
Valium salt lick.
You Might Be in Education If . . .
You believe chocolate is a food group.
You Might Be in Education If . . .
You have no time for a life
from August to June.
You Might Be in Education If . . .
When out in public you feel the urge
to talk to strange children and correct
their behavior.
You Might Be in Education If . . .
You believe that unspeakable evil
will befall you if anyone says,
"Boy, the kids sure are mellow
today."
You Might Be in Education If . . .
You believe in aerial spraying
of Prozac.
Things You'll Never Hear a
Teacher Say:
“The truth is, I went into
teaching for the money.”
Things You'll Never Hear
a Teacher Say:
"Thank goodness for these evaluations.
They keep me focused."
Things You'll Never Hear a Teacher Say
"Gosh, the bathroom smells
so fresh and clean!"
Three great languages:
to have English, Spanish
and Computer
James Naisbitt
Better than a thousand
days of diligent study is
one day with a great
teacher.
Japanese Proverb
When hard work
meets opportunity,
it produces success.
When integrating technology,
we need to go as fast as we can,
but as slow as we must
Kevin Gerrior
Students will think you’re
brilliant if you appear to have
known all your life what you
just learned this morning.
Morrie Reece
We are all
in this alone.
Lily Tomlin
Learning cannot
be inherited
Yiddish Proverb
Due to budget
constraints, the light
at the end of the
tunnel has been turned
off
Posted in a faculty lounge
Some people never
learn anything
because they
understood everything
too soon.
Alexander Pope
The most aggravating thing
about the younger generation
is that I no longer
belong to it.
Albert Einstein
Some people make the
future;
most wait for the future
to make them.
…….unknown
I've never learned
anything
while I was talking.
Larry King
Those who can, do.
Those who can do more, teach !
If a man speaks in
the forest,
and there is no
woman there
to hear him, is he
still wrong ?
Information is not knowledge,
knowledge is not wisdom, and
wisdom is not foresight. Each
grows out of the other and we
need them all.
Arthur C. Clarke
No one ever
became wise
by chance.
Seneca
The mind’s cross-
indexing puts the best
librarian to shame.
Sharon Begley
Whether you think you
can or think you can’t,
you’re right.
Henry Ford
He knows enough
who knows
how to learn.
Henry Adams
We cannot always build the
future for our youth, but we can
build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Imagination is more
important than
knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
To be granted some kind
of talent
and to be able to use it to the fullest
extent
this to me is a kind of joy that is
almost unequaled.
Lawrence Welk
I think there is a world market
for about five computers
attributed to Thomas Watson,
chairman of the board of IBM, 1943
I’m never going to be a movie
star. But then, in all probability,
Liz Taylor is never going to
teach
first grade
First Grade teacher, Mary J. Wilson
Education consists mainly
in what we have
unlearned
Mark Twain
When we have to learn
to do, we learn by doing
Aristotle
We teach who we are
John Gardner
You can tell a Freshman,
by the way they look.
You can tell a Sophomore,
by the kind of book.
You can tell a Junior,
by their clothes and such.
You can tell a Senior
,…but you can’t tell them much !
As long as you live,
keep learning how to
live
Seneca
It is no profit to have learned
well if you neglect to do well
Publilius Syrus
Although there are countless
alumni of the school of hard
knocks, there has not yet
been a move to accredit that
institution
Sonya Rudikoff
Students learn what they
need to learn, not what
someone else thinks they
need to learn. .
Morrie Reece
A diamond is a chunk of
coal that made good
under pressure
Unknown
A school should not
be a preparation for
life. A school should
be life.
Elbert Hubbard
“Successful people are always looking for
opportunities to help others.”
Michael Dell
“…passion should be the fire that drives your
life’s work.”
Michael Dell
Adversity causes some
men to break, others to
break records.
William A. Ward
The aim of a college
education is to teach you to
know a good man when you
see one.
William James
Education is everything:
the caulifower is nothing but
cabbage with a college
education.
Mark Twain
"We'll burn that
bridge when we
come to it."
Property laws of a 2 year old toddler
If I like it, it's mine.
If it's in my hand, it's mine.
If it looks like mine, it's mine.
If I saw it first, it's mine.
If it's broken, it's yours.
“I have a microwave
fireplace. You can lay
down in front of the fire
all night in eight
minutes.”
Steven Wright
Great minds have purposes;
others have wishes
Washington Irving
Education is life, not books
African proverb
Punishment that does
not correct, hardens
Fanny Jackson Coopin
When a child feels he
does not deserve praise,
he may misbehave to set
the teacher straight.
Haim Ginott
Education is teaching
children to behave as
they prefer not to
behave
Anonymous
Teach the young people
how to think, not what to
think.
Sidney Sugerman
There is nothing so
fatal to character as
half-finished tasks.
David Lloyd George
The main value of
homework lies in the
experience it gives a
child to work on his
own.
Haim Ginott
The quality of a
university is measured
more by the kind of
student it turns out than
the kind it takes in.
Robert Kibbee
If you promise not to
believe everything your
child says happens at
school, I promise not to
believe everything he says
happens at home
• Anonymous English Schoolmaster
There must be such a thing
as a child with average
ability, but you can’t find a
parent who will admit that it
is
his child.
Thomas Baily
Start a program for gifted
children, and every parent
demands that his child
be enrolled.
Thomas Bailey
A child miseducated
is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
I see the mind of the 5-year-
old as a volcano with two
vents:
destructiveness and
creativeness
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
If we think about our own
lives, we’ll remember how
much more we learned
from those who
encouraged us.
Joe Nameth
As you teach,
emphasize what
interests you.
William Glasser, M.D.
The only reason I
always try to meet and
know the parents better
is because it helps me to
forgive their children.
Teacher, Louis Johannot
Teaching is not a lost
art, but the regard for it
is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
Personally I'm always
ready to learn, although
I do not always like
being taught.
Winston Churchill
One good teacher in a
lifetime may sometimes
change a delinquent into a
solid citizen.
Phillip Whilie
“We have only one
person to blame, and that
is
each other.”
Lilly Tomlin
Even if you are on the
right track, you will get
run over if you just sit
there.
Will Rogers
“I think our guys have a handle on the fact that
while the national championship is a goal, what
work you do today determines whether you have
a chance at that or not. And so I think they're a
pretty focused group on living for the moment,
getting better.”
Jim Tressel
“"The illiterate of the 21st
century will not be those who
cannot read and
write, but those who cannot
learn, unlearn and relearn."
“Half our life is spent trying
to find something to do with
the time we have rushed
through life trying to save.”
Will Rogers
“Talent is what you possess.
Genius is what possesses
you.”
- M. Cowley
“Idealists foolish enough to
throw caution to the winds, have
advanced mankind and enriched
the world.”
John F. Kennedy
There is nothing so
stupid as an educated
man, if you get off the
thing that he was
educated in.
— Will Rogers
Will Rogers
Nothing in education is so
astonishing as the amount of
ignorance it accumulates in
the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
The educated differ from the
uneducated as much as the living
from the dead.
Aristotle
You can lead a boy to
college, but
you cannot
make him think.
Elbert Hubbard
To educate a man in
mind and not in morals
is to educate a menace
to society.
Theodore Roosevelt
Education is a
progressive discovery
of our ignorance.
Will Durant
He that is good for
making excuses is seldom
good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
Genius without
education is like silver
in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
Nothing argues louder against
the importance of heredity than the
moment when your child brings home
all Ds on their report card.
Morrie Reece
In moments of great achievement or
triumph, have you ever wished your
first grade teacher could see you now ?
Morrie Reece
Seen on a bumper sticker..
…
If you can read this,
thank a teacher !
One of the strongest
characteristics of genius
is the power of lighting
its own fire.
John Watson Foster
Teachers are members of the most
responsible, the least advertised, the
worst paid and the most richly
rewarded profession in the world
Ian Hay
History repeats itself, and
that's one of the things that's
wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
There is nobody so irritating as
somebody with less intelligence
and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
Perplexity is the
beginning of
knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge is the small
part of ignorance that we
arrange and classify.
Ambrose Bierce
To be proud of learning
is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylor
The secret of education
lies in respecting
the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should live and learn;
but by the time we've
learned, it's too late to live.
Carolyn Wells
Men learn
while they teach.
Seneca
I've known countless
people who were
reservoirs of learning
yet never had a thought.
Wilson Mizner
To teach is to touch
lives forever
One machine can do the
work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work
of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
Good teaching is one -fourth
preparation and three -
fourths theatre.
Gail Godwin
When a teacher calls a boy
by his entire name it means
trouble.
Mark Twain
Keep your technology plans
cast in jello…...soft jello.
Morrie Reece
The first half of our lives is
ruined by our parents
and the second half
by our children.
Clarence Darrow
Oh, what a tangled
web we weave
when first we practice
to conceive.
Don Herold
To cease smoking is the
easiest thing I ever did, I
ought to know because I've
done it a thousand times.
Mark Twain
A teacher who is attempting
to teach without inspiring the
pupil with a desire to learn is
hammering on cold iron
Horace Mann
It usually takes more than
three weeks to prepare a
good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
I was teaching my four year old
daughter how to unbuckle her seat belt.
She
asked, "Do I click the square?"
I said, "Yes."
She asked, "Single click or double
click?"
Education is a wonderful thing.
If you couldn’t sign your name
you’d have to pay cash.
Rita May Brown
"The old believe everything;
the middle-aged suspect
everything;
the young know everything."
Oscar Wilde
Theories and goals of
education don’t matter a
whit if you don’t consider
your students to be human
beings.
Lou Ann Walker
You have two choices:
you can see it my
way…or you can be
wrong.
A Mother’s advise to her Son.
“If you can’t say anything
nice about someone, come
sit beside me”
Seen on a pillow in Hollywood gossip
columnist Hedda Hopper’s home.
You cannot teach a man
anything; you can only help
him find it within himself.
Galileo
"You can lead a horse to
water, but you can't
make him drink...
-----unless you salt the
hay!
While hunting one day I was attacked
by a rattlesnake, a rabid wolf and a
lawyer.
Having only two bullets left in my gun,
I did the logical thing:
I shot the lawyer twice.
Mark Twain
OBSOLETE:
A feature built into
all technology.
It activates itself
shortly after you open
the box.
Teachers open the door, but
you must enter by yourself
-Chinese Proverb
To be good is noble, but to
teach others how to be good
is nobler—and less trouble.
Mark Twain
A teacher affects eternity; he
can never tell where his
influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams
Who dares to teach must
never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
Don't look back in anger,
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Tact: the ability to describe
others as they see
themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Minds are like parachutes:
they only function
when open.
Thomas Dewar
A good teacher is someone
who says something you
won’t understand…..
until ten years later.
— Julius Lester
The pupil who is
never required to do
what he cannot do,
never does
what he can do.
John Stuart Mill
What is education but a
process by which a person
begins to learn how to learn.
Peter Ustinov
If a person's education
is finished,
they are finished.
E.A. Filene
There is a great difference
between knowing and
understanding: you can know a
lot about something and not
really understand it.
Charles F. Kettering
Vision: the art of seeing
things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
That which seems the height of
absurdity in one generation often
becomes the height of wisdom
in the next.
John Stuart Mil
The object of teaching a
child is to enable him to get
along without a teacher
Elbert Hubbard
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so
ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old
man around. But when I got to be 21, I was
astonished at how much the old man had learned
in seven years
Mark Twain
"I am not young enough
to know everything.”
Oscar Wilde
"Human history becomes
more and more a race
between education
and catastrophe.”
H.G. Wells
"I know God will not give
me anything I can't handle. I
just wish that He didn't trust
me so much."
Mother Teresa
In teaching it is the method
and not the content that is
the message….the drawing
out, not the pumping in.
Ashley Montague
"Faith moves mountains,
but you have to keep pushing
while you are praying.”
Mason Cooley
“Why not” is a slogan for
an interesting life."
Mason Cooley
"If you are planning for one
year, grow rice. If you are
planning for 20 years, grow
trees. If you are planning for
centuries, grow men."
Chinese proverb
"Change is certain,
progress is not.”
E.H. Carr
Teachers are expected to reach
unattainable goals with
inadequate tools. The miracle is
that at times they accomplish
this impossible task.
Haim G. Ginott
An expert is one who
knows more and
more about
less and less
Nicholas Murray
"We can pay our debt to the
past by putting the future in
debt to ourselves.”
John Buchan
"There is no limit to the
good a person can do
if they don't care
who gets the credit.”
Judson B. Branch
”If we teach today as we
taught yesterday, we rob our
students of tomorrow."
John Dewey
Consider the postage stamp:
its usefulness consists in the
ability
to stick to one thing
till it gets there.
Josh Billings
To heir is human.
Dolores E. McGuire
History punishes those who
come late.”
The chief danger in life
is that you may take too
many precautions.
— Alfred Adler
A man likes his wife to be just clever
enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
— Israel Zangwill
If you want to kill any idea
in the world today, get a
committee working on it.
Charles F. Kettering
To get something done a committee
should consist of three people, two of
whom are absent
— Anonymous
"Do you pray for the Senators, Dr.
Hale?" someone asked the chaplain.
"No, I look at the Senators and pray
for
the country."
Chaplain Edward Everett Hale
Few things are harder to put
up with than the annoyance
of a
good example.
Mark Twain
Experience is a hard teacher
because she gives the test
first,
the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Saunders Law
Let us be thankful for the
fools; but for them the rest
of us could not succeed.
Mark TwainMark Twain
“ I touch the future.
I teach.”
Christa McAuliffe
The mediocre teacher tells. The good
teacher explains. The superior
teacher demonstrates. The great
teacher inspires.
William A Ward.
The aim of education is the
knowledge not of facts
but of values.
William Ralph Inge
I am a part of all
that I have met.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I believe in luck: how
else can you explain the
success of those
you dislike?
Jean Cocteau
You're getting old when
you don't care where
your spouse goes, just as
long as you don't have to
go along.
You know you're getting
on in years when the girls
at the office start confiding
in you.
By the time a man is
wise enough to watch
his step, he’s too old
to go anywhere.
Middle age is having a
choice of two
temptations and
choosing the one that
will get you home earlier
The cardiologist's diet:
if it tastes good, spit it
out
Last Will and Testament:
Being of sound mind,
I spent all my money
You know you're into
middle age when you
realize that
caution is the only thing
you care to exercise
Of course I'm against
sin. I'm against
anything
that I'm too old to
enjoy.
Bill Parcel’s World
Brand Your World
Blame Nobody
Expect Nothing
Do Something
NY Post (9/98)
Teach your
children well
Neil Young of
Crosby Stills and Nash
You better start swimming or
you will sink like a stone
Bob Dylan
A blue whale is the largest mammal on earth.
An adult blue whale is the length of over three Greyhound buses,
weighs more than a fully loaded 747 and has a heart the size of a Volkswagon Beetle.
It is so large that it takes at least three minutes for it to make a turn of 180 degrees.
Many people draw a strong parallel between blue whales
and our schools, businesses and even communities.
It just seems to take forever to change direction. But a school of sardines consisting of a greater
mass than a blue whale can turn almost instantly. How do they do it?
Is it ESP? CB radio? The Internet?
If you take a careful look at a school of sardines, you'll see that the fish appear to
be swimming in the same direction.
In reality, there will be always be a small group of sardines swimming against the flow
causing friction with the rest of the school.
But when this dedicated group of ‘committed sardines’ reaches a critical mass of
only 15 to 20 percent, they induce the rest of the
school to suddenly turn and follow their leadership! Isn't that what
happened with our attitudes
towards drinking and driving, and to our feelings about smoking?
They were changes of direction induced by a small group of people
who were truly committed to change,
to go against the flow, to cause discomfort, and to challenge the normal direction.
That's why we're committed sardines.
http://www.ianjukes.com
Don’t look back,
someone may be
gaining on you
Saitchel Paige
A Quality Program
Neil Armstrong, first to walk on moon ,
was asked was he nervous sitting
on the launch pad.
Of course, I was sitting on 9999 parts,
each of which was made by the lowest bidder.
Things that are good
ain’t cheap
And things that are cheap
ain’t good.
“It used to be that the big ate the small.
Now the fast eat the slow.”
Geoff Yang, IVP/Redpoint Ventures
“Where does the Internet rank
in priority?
It’s No. 1, 2, 3,
and 4.”
Jack Welch
American Top 40
Keep your feet on the ground
But keep reaching for the sky
Casey Kasem
Ours is a world of nuclear giants
and ethical infants.
If we continue to develop our
technology without
wisdom or prudence
our servant may prove to
be our executioner.
General Omar Bradley
Quayle
The question is whether we want to go
forward to tomorrow, or we are gonna go
past to the back.
I made good judgments in the past and
made good judgments in the future
The future will be better tomorrow
It is said but many people will
pay more to be entertained
then educated.
Johnny Carson
The classroom-not the trench-
is the frontier of freedom
now and forever more,
Lyndon B Johnson
If a dog won’t do what you teach him to do,
then teach him to do what he can do
Bobby Bowden
I don’t believe in playing
without a scoreboard.
Bobby Bowden
God does not sponsor flunkies,
if you are one of his he wants you to succeed.
Bobby Bowden
It is better to fail in a cause
that will ultimately succeed
than to succeed in a cause
that will ultimately fail.
Bobby Bowden
Christ was tough minded
but tender hearted.
The greatest mistake
is to continue practicing
a mistake.
Bobby Bowden
Why worry,
when you can pray.
Bobby Bowden
Team rights supercede individual rights
Bobby Bowden
My quotes are heavily peppered
with my religious convictions
which I offer no apology.
Bobby Bowden
Bobby Bowden
Responsibility without authority
will result in failure.
Bobby Bowden
Carry a grudge
Life’s Little
Destruction Book
Whatever it is,
be against it
Life’s Little
Destruction Book
Keep the car behind you
from making the light
Life’s Little
Destruction Book
Assign blame
Life’s Little
Destruction Book
Develop
a truly blank look
Life’s Little
Destruction Book
Raise your voice
so people
that cannot speak English
will understand you
Life’s Little
Destruction Book
I’m a loser.
Always been a loser,
always will be a loser.
Thus, I’m gonna
be the best darn
loser there is.
Life’s Little
Destruction Book
Being right is
not always popular
But being popular
is not always right.
I’ve never valued my worth in terms of
how big my kingdom is.
I've valued it based on the impact
that I'm having.
Janice Webb
Motorola
VP of personal networks
The freedom to be yourself is
the freedom to be your best
Things You'll Never Hear a Teacher Say
"Ithink the discipline around
here is just a little too strict !"
The more you do,
the more you are
Bryan R. Mundy
Do not let
what you cannot do,
interfere with what you
can do
For better or for worse
you must play your own little
instrument
in the orchestra of life.
Dale Carnegie
T ogether
E everyone
A chieves
M ore
Just do it right.
Live an honorable life.
Lou Holtz
Future Shock is what is happening today to people
and groups who are overwhelmed by change.
Change effects our products, communities, organizations
-even our patterns of friendship and love.
Love it, hate it-we can't ignore it.
Alvin Toffler
Your self image should not
come from the job you do,
but how you do your job
Martin Luther King
Change comes from either
passion or pressure.
Better to lead the change then
be pressured into it.
If someone says you
cannot do something
that is an opinion, it only
becomes a fact
when you tell yourself that
you cannot
Lou Holtz's Ten Step To Success
the power of attitude
tackle adversity
have a sense of purpose
make sacrifice your ally
adapt or die
chase your dreams
nurture your self image
foster trust
commit to excellence
handle with care
Winning is never accidental.
All successful coaches and
players have a game plan.
Lou Holtz
When two partners
always agree,
one is not necessary.
Seven P's:
Proper prior planning and preparation
prevents poor performance.
Army Colonel (ret.)
Rick Rescorla
The function of school is
not to help kids
do well in school.
The function of school
is to help kids
do well in life."
"Reasonable people adapt
themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to
adapt the world to themselves. All
progress, therefore, depends on
unreasonable people."
George Bernard Shaw
“The significant problems we face
cannot be solved at the same level of
thinking we were at when we created
them.”
Einstein
“Reserve the right
to know more today
than yesterday.”
Konrad Adenaur
Responsibility without
authority will result in
failure.
Bobby Bowden
Ice hockey officials creed:
Fair, Firm and Friendly.
The classroom-not the
trench-
is the frontier of freedom
now and forever more,
Lyndon B Johnson
People don't change that much
Don't waste time
trying to put in what was left out
Try to draw out what was left in
That is hard enough
It is not to ask why,
it is to do or die.
Military creed
A person writes because
they have a great desire
to share what they believe
is true.
It is better to fail in a-cause
that will ultimately succeed
than to succeed in a cause
that will ultimately fail.
No every coach can win
consistently with talent,
no coach can win
without it
John Wooden
"...but for a great leader,
when his aims are accomplished
and his purposes fulfilled,
the people will say, "We have
done this
ourselves!"
--Lao Tzu (570-490 BC)
What you make a child love
and desire
is more important than what
you make him learn.
Jim Trelease
There’s nothing more difficult to take
in hand, more perilous to conduct,
than to take a lead in the introduction
of a new order of things - because the
innovation has for enemies all those
who have done well under the old
conditions and lukewarm defenders in
those who may do well under the new.
"Studentsare natives to cyberspace,
where the rest of us are immigrants.
Douglas Ruskoff, Playing the Future, 1996
Nothing could be more absurd
than an experiment
in which computers
are placed in a classroom
where nothing else is changed.
Seymour Papert
Vision is the art
of seeing the invisible.
Jonathan Swift
There is no reason for an individual
to have a computer in their home
Ken Olsen,
President of Digital Equipment Corporation
Convention of the World Future Society,
1977
Successful learning activities
require more than just technology.
ISTE, (June 1998)
National Educational Standards for Students.
In schools where students
are learning with laptops,
we are seeing the
types of educational change
called for by today's national standards
and reform efforts."
Saul Rockman (1998) "Powerful Tools for
Schooling,"
We are witnessing a revolution as significant
as any other in all of history.
It is not simply about the networking
of technology but about
the networking of
knowledge, ingenuity, and
opportunity.
Don Tapscott
(1996) The Digital Economy
The most promising thing technology
offers educators is the power to
place the individual
in control of his own education,
to follow his own interests
and purposes for a lifetime
of learning and competency.
Sherese Graves, Converge, March 2000.
Enlighten the people generally,
and tyranny and oppressions of body
and mind will vanish
like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
The key to effective schooling today
is to teach our kids how to learn.
That way, they can continue
to reinvent their base knowledge
throughout life.
Don Tapscott, Converge, March 2000
We cannot expect teachers
to teach what they do not know, nor to use yesterday's
training to prepare today's students for
tomorrow's future.
By improving staff development, by creating schools
optimized for learning, we will be helping all teachers
to excel at helping all students reach the
high levels of achievement they need to succeed.
Dennis Sparks and Stephanie Hirsch,
A National Plan for Improving
Professional Development,
(December 1999) National Staff Development
Council http://www.nsdc.org
The reason why worry kills more
people than work is that more
people worry than work.
"One of the greatest pains to human
nature is the pain of a new idea."
Walter Bagehot,
English editor and
economist (1826-1877).
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in
every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every
difficulty."
Winston Churchill
"Reasonable people adapt
themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt
to adapt the world to
themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on
unreasonable people."
George Bernard Shaw
“There is one thing worse than not being able
to see, being able to see and having no
vision.”
Helen Keller
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds
Albert Einstein
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,
it is the only thing that ever has.”- Margaret Mead
When dealing with technology, go as fast
as you can but as slow as you must
Kevin Gerrior
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,
it is the only thing that ever has.”- Margaret Mead
Playing goal in the NHL
is like working in an office and
you make a mistake
typing a sentence
and 18000 people
immediately yell at you
.
Glenn Hall
The Last Book You Will Ever Read
Frank Ogden Quotes:
"America has run the world for at least the past 50 years, and when
you're at the top that long, you forget what it's like in the valley. There
are 5+ billion people out there now who are willing to study harder,
work harder for less money and be more industrious than we are. And
we're linked to them by technology. With telecommunications, you can
have your bookkeeping done in Madra, India, for less than it costs
here. Today technology can replace whole new industries, so you have
to stay flexible. To survive today, you have to be able to walk on
quicksand and dance with electrons."
These are quotes that I have
collected or sent to me as I travel
across the US and Canada
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Kevin Gerrior
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